An Act To Correct a Statutory Oversight Regarding Renewable Capacity Resources Portfolio Requirements for Consumer-owned Utilities
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §3207, sub-§1, ¶A, as amended by PL 2003, c. 141, §1, is further amended to read:
A. May sell retail generation service only within their respective service territories, and are authorized to purchase electric power and energy at wholesale, provided that as long as the consumer-owned transmission and distribution utility complies with the requirements of section 3203, subsection 3 and section 3210, subsection subsections 3 and 3-A, and to purchase such transmission and related services as may be required to effect the delivery of such power and energy to their respective service territories; and
Sec. 2. 35-A MRSA §3207, sub-§1-A, ¶A, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 108, §1, is amended to read:
A. May sell retail generation service only within its service territory and is authorized to purchase electric power and energy at wholesale, as long as the consumer-owned transmission and distribution utility complies with the requirements of section 3203, subsection 3 and section 3210, subsection subsections 3 and 3-A, and to purchase such transmission and related services as may be required to effect the delivery of such power and energy to its service territory; and
summary
This bill corrects a statutory oversight to require consumer-owned utilities that sell retail generation service within their respective service territories to comply with the new renewable capacity resources portfolio requirement.